SOC 885 Lecture Notes - Jiwani, Jessica Lynch, Burqa
19 Apr 2012
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Tutorial 4: explain race and gender as tropes (jiwani): The dominant group in canada is seen as the canadians who are known as peaceful people, in other words who are not seen within the imagine community, and muslim women would be labeled as others . Others consider to have values and beliefs that are not conducive that are not considered to be the ideal canadian. (page 53). Representations of muslim women involve similar tropes in the dominant western media as victims of a barbanic, anti-modernist religion and as strange others who cannot be fathomed: gender and nation relationship: kandiyoti/jiwani/jabbra. Describes what women and men are to the nation. Men and women have different relationships to the nation. Women are: - biological reproducer/cultural reproducer/symbolize national boundaries. Example of a pakistani woman living in canada and not wanting or will learn english because it conflicts her nationalism: revolutionary association of the women of afghanistan: jabbra.
